I've been using https://github.com/jonmbake/bootstrap3-contact-form as a quick way to build the form, but modified it slightly to fit the design which we wanted. This uses
getenv('THINGNAME');
inside of .htaccess to set the email, password, hostname, etc.
The form is currently live and is showing as having no errors in the console but when I check the mail account after sending test messages there is no new mail, even in the spam folders.
Here a direct link to the page http://mtmlegal.co.uk/contact.html
Thinking it may be due to that git having a outdated version of PHPmailer that's causing the problem, I updated the necessary files and it didn't seem to make any discernible difference.
I'm aware of a similar issue 1, but that instance is not for phpmailer, so I believe this case is different enough to warrant its own question.
I also quickly checked the logs to see if they were possibly being bounced by the server to find that the server reports deliveries were a success but there's still nothing in mailbox
Here's the sendmail php which pushes to PHPMailer:
<?php
/**
* Sets error header and json error message response.
*
* @param String $messsage error message of response
* @return void
*/
function errorResponse ($messsage) {
header('HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error');
die(json_encode(array('message' => $messsage)));
}
/**
* Pulls posted values for all fields in $fields_req array.
* If a required field does not have a value, an error response is given.
*/
function constructMessageBody () {
$fields_req = array("name" => true, "email" => true, "message" => true);
$message_body = "";
foreach ($fields_req as $name => $required) {
$postedValue = $_POST[$name];
if ($required && empty($postedValue)) {
errorResponse("$name is empty.");
} else {
$message_body .= ucfirst($name) . ": " . $postedValue . "\n";
}
}
return $message_body;
}
header('Content-type: application/json');
//do Captcha check, make sure the submitter is not a robot:)...
$url = 'https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify';
$opts = array('http' =>
array(
'method' => 'POST',
'header' => 'Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
'content' => http_build_query(array('secret' => getenv('RECAPTCHA_SECRET_KEY'), 'response' => $_POST["g-recaptcha-response"]))
)
);
$context = stream_context_create($opts);
$result = json_decode(file_get_contents($url, false, $context, -1, 40000));
if (!$result->success) {
errorResponse('reCAPTCHA checked failed! Error codes: ' . join(', ', $result->{"error-codes"}));
}
//attempt to send email
$messageBody = constructMessageBody();
require 'php_mailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php';
$mail = new PHPMailer;
$mail->CharSet = 'UTF-8';
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->Host = getEnv('FEEDBACK_HOSTNAME');
if (!getenv('FEEDBACK_SKIP_AUTH')) {
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = getenv('FEEDBACK_EMAIL');
$mail->Password = getenv('FEEDBACK_PASSWORD');
}
if (getenv('FEEDBACK_ENCRYPTION') == 'TLS') {
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
$mail->Port = 587;
} elseif (getenv('FEEDBACK_ENCRYPTION') == 'SSL') {
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';
$mail->Port = 465;
}
$mail->Sender = getenv('FEEDBACK_EMAIL');
$mail->setFrom($_POST['email'], $_POST['name']);
$mail->addAddress(getenv('FEEDBACK_EMAIL'));
$mail->Subject = $_POST['reason'];
$mail->Body = $messageBody;
//try to send the message
if($mail->send()) {
echo json_encode(array('message' => 'Your message was successfully submitted.'));
} else {
errorResponse('An unexpected error occured while attempting to send the email: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo);
}
?>
Apart from changing paths and the log level, I've not changed the files within PHPmailer.